deface

Verb

Meaning

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

To destroy; to make null.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disfigure mar scar obliterate blemish vandalize sully mars mara total blight cripple hough hurter damage
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Antonyms

garland grace polish better help square
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Hypernyms

mar impair spoil vitiate deflower

Hyponyms

mark maul pit scar mangle pock

Phrases with the word

to deface

Derivatives

defaced defacing

Examples

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T. S. Eliot

May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn hic jacet. William Wordsworth

They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side. Sitting Bull

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them. Frank Lloyd Wright

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. Sitting Bull

Close letter words and terms

deez nutz def def. defaceable defacement defacer